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For maintenance free batteries, coupled with an intermittent power source and an intelligent controller, the whole system coukd act as a constant power source.

• isoprophlex 8y ago
  I think the point is, from the perspective of electricity grid maintenance, it doesn't matter much (given sufficient transport capabilities) if you stuff all the wind turbines on one end, and all the redox batteries on the other end of the country. No need to integrate the production and storage solutionss at all.
  • zokier 8y ago
    > given sufficient transport capabilities I feel like that is fairly big thing here. In practice power grid capacity is very much finite.
    • infogulch 8y ago
      There's no reason you couldn't have region-local storage locations underground. There are lots of huge natural and artificial cave systems that would be perfect for temperature control of even enormous batteries. I don't think transmission losses to a regional underground storage facility will be a huge concern.